In the day the sun was hot in the midday hours, but never unpleasantly so.

After two days of marching through forests and across great grassy folds in the earth we reached Eldoma Ravine, a subcommissioner's _boma_ that looks for all the world like a mountain health resort.

From the hill upon which the station is situated one may look across the Great Rift Valley, two thousand feet below, and stretching away for miles across, like a Grand Canon of Arizona without any mountains in it.

Strong stone walls protect the white residence, for this is a section of the country that has suffered much from native uprisings during the last few years.

We called on the solitary white resident one evening, and, true to the creed of the Briton, he had dressed for dinner.